The panel voted to override Endangered Species Act restrictions on oil and gas activities in the Gulf of Mexico, home to critically endangered whales and other imperiled wildlife.
This will have essentially no impact on fuel prices; those are set on global markets, and the US has been a net oil exporter since the early Biden administration.
Only when the last renewable energy project has been canceled, the last owl has died, and the last whale been poisoned will we realize we cannot live in a dead ecosystem.